AFAIK, the term was popularized by Rich Hickey in Clojure's implementation [1]. His talk introducing the concept goes into the etymology specifically. If I reme

AFAIK, the term was popularized by Rich Hickey in Clojure's implementation [1]. His talk introducing the concept goes into the etymology specifically. If I remember correctly it's something like "to carry across." [1] https://clojure.org/reference/transducers https://clojure.org/reference/transducers